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Acts 2
Acts 2 is the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Early Christian tradition asserted that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. Critical opinion on the tradition was evenly divided at the end of the 20th century. This chapter records the events on the day of Pentecost, about 10 days after the ascension of Jesus Christ.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 47 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
The biblical narrative of Pentecost is given in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Present were about one hundred and twenty followers of Christ (Acts 1:15), all together "in one place" (Acts 2:1), including the Twelve Apostles (i.e. the eleven disciples and Matthias, who had replaced Judas Iscariot), Jesus' mother Mary, various other women disciples and Jesus' brothers (Acts 1:14). Their reception of the Holy Spirit and their empowerment to speak in tongues are recounted in Acts 2:1–6: J. Rawson Lumby holds that the "one place" was clearly "the upper room where the Apostles abode, and where the disciples had met for the election of Matthias".
¹When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. ²And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. ³Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. ⁴All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
⁵Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. ⁶And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. ⁷Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?"
— Acts 2:1–7: NRSV
While those on whom the Spirit had descended were speaking in many languages, the gathering crowd's reaction progressed from perplexity (verse 6) to amazement (verse 7). In verse 6, "this sound" (Greek: της φωνης ταυτης, tēs phōnēs tautēs) may refer to "the sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind" in verse 2, or to the speaking in tongues in verse 4. Henry Alford suggests that "we may safely decide for the former reference" (the sound from heaven) because the writer would have written "φωναί" (phōnai: plural) if the multiple voices spoken in tongues was intended. The paraphrase in The Living Bible emphasizes the same reading: "when they heard the roaring in the sky above the house".
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Acts 2
Acts 2 is the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Early Christian tradition asserted that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. Critical opinion on the tradition was evenly divided at the end of the 20th century. This chapter records the events on the day of Pentecost, about 10 days after the ascension of Jesus Christ.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 47 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
The biblical narrative of Pentecost is given in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Present were about one hundred and twenty followers of Christ (Acts 1:15), all together "in one place" (Acts 2:1), including the Twelve Apostles (i.e. the eleven disciples and Matthias, who had replaced Judas Iscariot), Jesus' mother Mary, various other women disciples and Jesus' brothers (Acts 1:14). Their reception of the Holy Spirit and their empowerment to speak in tongues are recounted in Acts 2:1–6: J. Rawson Lumby holds that the "one place" was clearly "the upper room where the Apostles abode, and where the disciples had met for the election of Matthias".
¹When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. ²And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. ³Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. ⁴All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
⁵Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. ⁶And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. ⁷Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?"
— Acts 2:1–7: NRSV
While those on whom the Spirit had descended were speaking in many languages, the gathering crowd's reaction progressed from perplexity (verse 6) to amazement (verse 7). In verse 6, "this sound" (Greek: της φωνης ταυτης, tēs phōnēs tautēs) may refer to "the sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind" in verse 2, or to the speaking in tongues in verse 4. Henry Alford suggests that "we may safely decide for the former reference" (the sound from heaven) because the writer would have written "φωναί" (phōnai: plural) if the multiple voices spoken in tongues was intended. The paraphrase in The Living Bible emphasizes the same reading: "when they heard the roaring in the sky above the house".